Your actions - I’m taking a break

I am off for a week so no posts or news items for a while.  In the meanwhile however two actions
1. The Construction Best Practice Club steering group meet on the 6th June to plan the next half of this years events.  What topics and type of events would you like to see?  Please leave [...]

LCBPC Events Update

Once again we have had to shift events to avoid clashes and to enable better timing with other events and programmes in the North West
The Bidding to Win event will be moved to later in the year. Those who have expressed and interest in attending will be offered (part funded through CKE) in house [...]

under construction - The Energy White Paper -

The dust is still settling on yesterdays Energy White Paper, with Nuclear plans making the headlines, but the paper contained much more….
There will be plenty of commentaries on the Paper, but, apart from the huge infrastructure projects planned, the following , caught my interest as having the potential for a huge impact on our industry [...]

Health and safety in public sector construction procurement

HSE have now published their study that looked at health and safety issues in public sector construction procurement.
The broad aim of the research was to provide an evidence-based assessment of how well the public sector in England, Scotland and Wales meets its health and safety obligations in the procurement of construction.
The conclusions, drawn from the [...]

Building Houses or Creating Communities?

Despite the governments good intentions residents risk missing out on sustainable communities in the push to get houses built quickly.
In its role as sustainable development watchdog, the Sustainable Development Commission has undertaken its first thematic review. The report is based on site visits and interviews with local authorities, developers and residents, the SDC
report assesses whether [...]

Waste Not

The Governments Waste Strategy Review, to be released this week, is expected to propose a doubling in waste recycling targets by 2020. The targets will include more action against fly-tipping, bans on sending recyclable material to landfill, increases in landfill tax and better domestic collection systems.
In addition the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) [...]

Big Foot (prints)

Toronto Mayor David Miller announced that his city would be using a tool, called Zerofootprint Toronto, to calculate carbon  emissions for the city’s 50,000 employees this July.
While personal carbon calculators are all the favour across the web, the unveiling of Zerofootprint’s carbon counter at the C40 Climate Summit last week ushers in a new era [...]

Geo Solar Homes

Housing Construction that both heats it self and cools itself. An interesting innovation from the States can be found at Enertia House
Enertia Building System, named as the 2007 Modern Marvel of the Year is described as
innovative new homes of remarkable strength, economy, and beauty, brought to life by an elegant new architecture and [...]

Not Using KPI’s Yet?

Constructing Excellence plan to start an on-line KPI initiative next month that will give organisations an annual endorsement mark to show they are using industry KPIs. It will be known as KPI Mark
Reported in Contract Journal:
CE stressed that although the scoring system was not a form of accreditation, it said clients could use the [...]

Events

STOP PRESS
The Life After Frameworks event has been postponed to avoid clashes with other events in the same area, and is currently rescheduled for the 14th June at the same venue ( Globe, Accrington)
Watch the Club Events page on this site for information on this event and the other events such as
Bidding To Win [...]